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Children are adventurous and they love to explore things with all of their senses, and although parents may try, they can’t keep an eye on their kids every second of the day. Electric sockets are one of the biggest threats to a baby’s curiosity. Knowing how to prevent your little ones from getting an electric shock will bring you peace …

Almost everyone has experienced an electric shock at some point in their lives, whether it be simple static electricity or getting a jolt from stick a fork in the microwave . However if you have been injured by electrocution due to another person’s negligence, you may have a personal injury case on your hands. Electric shock is just like any …

Electricians are not the only professionals at risk of death or injury by electrocution. Approximately 140 construction workers are killed on the job each year by coming in contact with electricity. Carpenters, roofers, cement workers and machine technicians are at an elevated risk of electric shock. Contact with electricity can cause severe burns, ventricular fibrillation and death. Defective Product Electrocution …

It’s a heartbreaking and terrifying story that will cause anyone who’s ever used a hotel pool to shudder. View image | gettyimages.com 27-year-old Raul Martinez and his family were staying at a Hilton hotel in Houston, TX over Labor Day weekend in 2013. They decided to take a dip in the hotel’s swimming pool one night, and while they were …

Among this year’s Oscar nominees is Interstellar, a blockbuster sci-fi film that imagines a second severe Dust Bowl for Earth’s not-so-distant future. The first Dust Bowl, of course, was a climatic catastrophe that rocked the prairies of the United States and Canada during the 1930s, sometimes referred to as the “Dirty Thirties.” A drastic drought, coupled with improper farming techniques, …

Electrocution happens more often than you might think. In fact, more than 1,000 people lose their lives to electrocution in America every year. Another 2,000 are sent to the hospital with severe injury or burns. View image | gettyimages.com Just last month, a Florida man made headlines when he was left hanging after dying almost instantly from electrocution while trimming …